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This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Beavers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43506246615063,"sku":null,"price":230.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8407\/4775\/files\/TheUnbearableLightnessofBeing_MilanKundera.jpg?v=1760100212"},{"product_id":"immortality","title":"Immortality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life, without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Beavers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43506249629719,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8407\/4775\/files\/Immortality_MilanKundera.jpg?v=1760100462"},{"product_id":"laughable-loves","title":"Laughable Loves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaughable Loves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexual attraction is shown as a game that often turns sour, an experience that brings with it painful insights and releases uncertainty, panic, vanity and a constant need for reassurance. Thus a young couple on holiday start a game of pretence that threatens to destroy their relationship, two middle-aged men go in search of girls they don't really want, a young man renews contact with an older woman who feels humiliated by her ageing body, an elderly doctor uses his beautiful wife to increase his attraction and minister to his sexual vanity. 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In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Beavers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43506252873751,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8407\/4775\/files\/TheBookofLaughterandForgetting_MilanKundera.jpg?v=1760101020"},{"product_id":"the-joke","title":"The Joke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first published, and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature, that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. 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This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else \"losing sight\" of that loved one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation--and the vague sense of panic it inspires--the very fabric of his novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside, and what the mind creates in its solitude.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Beavers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43506257461271,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8407\/4775\/files\/Identity_MilanKundera.jpg?v=1760101450"},{"product_id":"ignorance","title":"Ignorance","description":"\u003cp\u003eA man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they had chosen to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence \"their memories no longer match.\" We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion. Then again, what can we expect of our weak memory? It records only \"an insignificant, minuscule particle\" of the past, \"and no one knows why it's this bit and not any other bit.\" We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, a fact we refuse to recognize. 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